So many crashing

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide Technical Support
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Issue Type (Required):

Crash - After Building Shader Cache

Issue Description (Required):

When I press play on the launcher, the game crashes immediately.
After around 10 to 20 attempts, if I’m lucky, the game manages to launch successfully once or twice.
Even when I succeed in launching the game, the lag has been too severe lately.

I tried the methods listed in the link, but they did not resolve the issue.

[PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional):

No, I don’t use mods

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Often (<75%)

Platform (Required):

Steam (PC)

[PC] Crash Report (Optional):

GUID: 15e31626-a967-4ad7-a90c-faffca76a711
Log File:
Info Type:

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Additionally, recently, there are times when the launcher itself doesn’t even launch.

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Sorry to hear this. Could you please try the solution below, and let me know whether or not this helps with your issue?:

  1. Navigate to: Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\bundle\application_settings
  2. Open win32_settings using Notepad or similar
  3. Change deadlock_detector_enabled = true to deadlock_detector_enabled = false
  4. Save your changes
  5. Launch Darktide as normal
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I tried the solution you provided. However, the loading time was extremely long, almost to the point where it seemed like my computer had frozen. After the loading, I encountered a login error on the title screen (the screen with four henchmen).

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The game itself just froze, and now it’s not even showing a crash report.

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Please could you try disabling the Steam Overlay, and see if there’s any improvement?

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I had already disabled the Steam Overlay before. It didn’t help.

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By the way, After changing ‘deadlock_detector_enabled’ from ‘true’ to ‘false,’ the game is not functioning properly. Is this really the correct solution?

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I just uninstalled and reinstalled the game. It’s still crashing. I’ll send you the crash report and logs that occurred after the reinstall.

*This is crash report:

GUID: e5c396ba-ebef-4567-8763-50fcce366d9b
Log File:
Info Type:

*This is the most recent console log:

console-2024-01-14-05.15.17-e5c396ba-ebef-4567-8763-50fcce366d9b.log (19.2 KB)

*This is the most recent darktide launcher log:

darktide_launcher.log (138.4 KB)

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As this was unsuccessful, you can undo the changes. Simply change false back to true :slight_smile:

I’ve been discussing this with one of our Engine Developers, and he recommends this:

  1. Navigate to Steam\steamapps\common\Warhammer 40,000 DARKTIDE\bundle\application_settings
  2. Open settings_common.ini with Notepad or similar
  3. Change use_blocking_io to false
  4. Change use_bank_thread to false
  5. Change use_engine_thread to false
  6. Save your changes
  7. Launch Darktide as normal
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After changing use_blocking_io, use_bank_thread, and use_engine_thread to fasle, game is still crashing when i press the play(i mean, at the loading screen).

GUID: 5b7d7182-a677-4728-ab24-2b17b6d91a34
Log File:
Info Type:

console-2024-01-17-06.35.37-5b7d7182-a677-4728-ab24-2b17b6d91a34.log (23.0 KB)

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Seems like your latest crash is related to use_engine_thread. Note that we never changed these values, we are only testing this to see if any of them resolves your issue.

I would start with testing use_bank_thread as false and then use_blocking_io.

Try combos with of them. Meaning one false and the other one true and vice versa. Let us know if any combo resolves your issue.

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i think game is working when i use_bank_thread = false. but i have ton of in-game lag now. The in-game lag (or error) I’ve been experiencing is as follows:

Even when I’m not pressing the directional keys, my character continues to move. When I press the weapon swap key once, it reacts as if I pressed it multiple times (this causes the weapon to switch back to the melee weapon when I try to switch to the gun), the attack animation is very odd, and even when I release the mouse button, the gun continues to fire. Additionally, when I hit an enemy, sometimes no damage is dealt, or conversely, I hit empty space and the enemy takes damage. Various strange errors like these are occurring.

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could be unrelated to the changes, I tried this on my PC with locked 60 fps. What this flag does is that it moves the reads of streamed audio to the game thread which in theory is bad. If you are on a fast SSD it might not be that slow, but on a HDD it might cause alot of issues.

Are you running the game on a SSD? (our log tells me that you do).

Could there be issues with said drive? Perhaps try move the game to another disc if possible since the original issue could be due to this.

My guess is that your perf issues might be related to the original issue.